The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 11, 2020

In order to gain broad software integration of causal effects models, a significant investment in software engineering, especially in computation, is needed. Computational causal inference brings a software implementation focus to causal inference, especially in regards to high performance numerical computing.

Software Engineering 233

Software Engineering Scalability Engineering Strategy 233

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Each use case provides its own unique value and impact, and whoever sees value in the use cases can adopt it—whether they are a platform engineer, DevOps engineer, performance engineer, or a site reliability engineer (SRE).

Engineering 187

Engineering Development Infrastructure Cloud 187

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Think about your past work experiences and prepare some examples of when you achieved something amazing, or had some tough challenges. If you want to practice, focus on medium-difficulty real-world problems you might encounter in a software engineering role. Be sure to have questions prepared to ask the interviewers.

Engineering 199

Engineering Games Entertainment Innovation 199

Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

The IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2020 Predictions highlights key trends for IT industry-wide technology adoption for the next five years and includes these predictions: Hasten to innovation. By 2024, over 50% of all IT spending will be directly put towards digital transformation and innovation (up from 31% in 2018).

Performance 246

Performance Education Innovation Software Architecture 246

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

Deriving business value with AI, IT automation, and data reliability When it comes to increasing business efficiency, boosting productivity, and speeding innovation, artificial intelligence takes center stage. Platform engineering involves building internal platforms to provide a self-service library to software developers.

Performance 191

Performance DevOps Innovation Artificial Intelligence 191

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

As organizations accelerate innovation to keep pace with digital transformation, DevOps observability is becoming a critical key to success for DevOps and DevSecOps teams. According to recent Dynatrace research , organizations expect to make software updates 58% more frequently in the coming year.

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DevOps Best Practices Innovation Strategy 203

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Here we describe the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix, including how our platform investments support running tests at scale while enabling innovation. but that would slow down our overall pace of innovation. Curious to learn more?

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Innovation Metrics Engineering Testing 243

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

This shift is leading more organizations to hire site reliability engineers to guarantee the reliability and resiliency of their services. How site reliability engineering affects organizations’ bottom line SRE applies the disciplines of software engineering to infrastructure management, both on-premises and in the cloud.

Best Practices 228

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 228

Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2021

Serverless can accelerate innovation (and introduce blind spots). Serverless architectures help developers innovate more efficiently and effectively by removing the burden of managing underlying infrastructure. For example, Amazon Alexa extensions are implemented as AWS Lambda functions. for example,?how AWS Lambda?extension

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Lambda Serverless AWS Mobile 214

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It manages the underlying infrastructure that hosts distributed container-based applications, which frees developers to focus on innovating and developing applications. If a user encounters an error page on a website, for example, it’s vital to trace the behavior to the original source of failure. Amazon EKS.

Best Practices 217

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 217

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Interview with Samuel Setegne Samuel Setegne This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Samuel Setegne is a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Data Science and Engineering team.

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Data Engineering Engineering Big Data Healthcare 130

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We need to be constantly adapting and innovating as a result of this change. The Growth Engineering team is responsible for executing growth initiatives that help us anticipate and adapt to this change. The rules engine provides a means to extract available plans and offers when certain conditions within a rule match.

Engineering 142

Engineering Scalability Architecture Innovation 142

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Netflix has a long history of developing innovative tools for observability , so when we began to specify requirements for the new GUI, we were able to leverage experiences from the previous GUIs built for other use cases, as well as real-life user stories from Metaflow users. Example task-level plugin Try it at home!

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Open Source Monitoring Scalability Code 222

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

To demonstrate this process, we will build a canvas for the following fictitious example (inspired by real examples from our consulting work): A large logistics company wants to expand into new verticals and integrate its offerings into an emerging open marketplace. The organization needs to innovate faster to become more competitive.

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Architecture Metrics Logistics Strategy 98

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 19, 2020

How we spend our time and apply our resources when developing software systems is possibly the most fundamental and difficult challenge. A natural tendency for software engineers is to gravitate towards the most technically interesting challenges. no longer an innovation that differentiates but still something that is needed.

Open Source 87

Open Source Games Innovation Strategy 87

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The Nature of Evolution New innovations often become the platform for future innovations. Since then, Google Maps has become the foundation for many other innovations after being opened up to developers via APIs. A good engineering organization moves at speed with high reliability. You wouldn’t trust what they build.”

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Innovation Speed Google Strategy 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 30, 2019

By Juliano Moraes , David Henry , Corey Grunewald & Jim Isaacs Recently Netflix has started building mobile apps to bring technology and innovation to our Studio Physical Productions , the portion of the business responsible for producing our TV shows and movies. Here is a shooting day for Glow Season 3.

Architecture 155

Architecture Mobile Code Testing 155

O'Reilly Software

JUNE 12, 2018

Practical advice for software engineers and security consultants. As a software security evaluator and a one-time engineer, I can confirm what the daily security breaches are telling us: software engineers and architects regularly fail at building in sufficient security and privacy.

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Artificial Intelligence Development Software Engineering Programming 78

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2021

Groups beyond software engineering teams are standing up their own systems and automation. This is an amazing movement providing numerous opportunities for product innovation, but managing this growth has introduced a support burden of ensuring proper security authentication & authorization, cloud hygiene, and scalable processes.

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AWS Cloud Games Infrastructure 251

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Niosha Behnam | Demand Engineering @ Netflix At Netflix we prioritize innovation and velocity in pursuit of the best experience for our 150+ million global customers. For example, player logging, authorization, licensing, and bookmarks were initially handled by a single monolithic service whose demand correlated highly with SPS.

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Traffic Metrics Mobile Government 190

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

Now, imagine yourself in the role of a software engineer responsible for a micro-service which publishes data consumed by few critical customer facing services (e.g. In this model, we scan system logs and metadata generated by various compute engines to collect corresponding lineage data.

Infrastructure 219

Infrastructure Big Data Transportation Architecture 219

Strategic Tech

AUGUST 14, 2021

To me, this story is what DDD is really about: developing the design mindset of a modeller to drive product innovation and enable continuous delivery of value, involving frequent collaboration with domain experts. Software engineers are not typists who translate requirements into software.

Design 52

Design Software Engineering Innovation Engineering 52

Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

You’ve got a backlog full of innovative product ideas that will transform your business results, but you just can’t hire people quickly enough to build and deliver your wondrous innovations. finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. Hiring is so hard?—?finding

Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering Open Source Engineering Java 40

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For more background on the signup funnel and Growth Engineering’s role in the signup funnel, please read our initial post on the topic: Growth Engineering at Netflix?—?Accelerating Accelerating Innovation. The Customization Service is a rules engine that emits the adaptive fields. We call these adaptive fields.

Engineering 165

Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 165

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This is the AWS Professional Services built tooling that customers can use to track the carbon footprint of their operations and processes, along with a customer example. Good example, well presented interesting new material. SUS304 to SUS311 No talks with these codes.

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AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

For example, the existence and support of open-source frameworks such as LLVM or Tensorflow/Pytorch are an attractive element to many newcomers. ML and deep learning innovations are constantly in the news. Her current work focuses on hardware/software co-design for extremely large-scale deep learning training.

Architecture 74

Architecture Open Source Hardware Software Engineering 74

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

For the past 20 years, thousands of software engineers at Amazon have been working on ML. We know that innovative technologies always take off whenever barriers to entry fall for market participants. In particular small and medium-sized companies with innovative strength can benefit. Machine Leaning at Amazon.

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Artificial Intelligence Transportation Education Airlines 147

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It’s been clear for a while that software designed explicitly for the data center environment will increasingly want/need to make different design trade-offs to e.g. general-purpose systems software that you might install on your own machines. But wow, I didn’t think we’d be at the point yet where we’d be abandoning TCP/IP!

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Brendan Gregg tours BPF tracing, with open source tools & examples for EC2 instance analysis. Join Lee Packham, AWS Solutions Architect and Enrico Huijbers, AWS Software Development Engineer to find out how easy it is. Software Engineer, AWS Serverless Applications, and Yishai Galatzer, Senior Manager Software Development.

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Brendan Gregg tours BPF tracing, with open source tools & examples for EC2 instance analysis. Join Lee Packham, AWS Solutions Architect and Enrico Huijbers, AWS Software Development Engineer to find out how easy it is. Software Engineer, AWS Serverless Applications, and Yishai Galatzer, Senior Manager Software Development.

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

O'Reilly Software

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Pioneered by Netflix, chaos engineering represents a great example of continuing innovation in software engineering practices. A great example of our breadth, this talk exposes the uninitiated to the seemingly arcane world and nomenclature of strategy consultants.

Software Architecture 64

Software Architecture Architecture Software Software 64

Abhishek Tiwari

JANUARY 9, 2019

Fake It Till You Make It’ is a new norm in the business world which means there are a lot more pressure on software engineering teams to make commitments and push to deliver on those commitments. Most importantly, optimising for velocity requires a culture of innovation, excellence, and empowerment.

Tuning 40

Tuning Software Engineering Innovation Engineering 40

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The way we now look at software engineering has revolutionized test automation, with QA teams adapting automation to expand test scope, increase efficiency and do more testing in less time. When the repetitive tasks are automated, your testing team also gets time to innovate and improve the testing processes and hence the output too.

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Testing Testing Tools Software Engineering Efficiency 54

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Let's take an example of retail as a domain of interest. One way to create a Spotify model inspired engineering organisation is to organise long-lived squads by retail business process hubs - i.e. specialisation around business process. Is it possible to draw inspiration from outside of software engineering? Probably yes.

Engineering 61

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Reporters and editors aren't software engineers, so the potential of browser competition can remain understandably opaque. As an example, the eight-year delay in implementing Push Notifications for the web [3] kept many businesses from giving the web a second thought. Also, this might all be Greek.

Google 93

Google Mobile Games Strategy 93

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

And conversely, if you need software with that kind of accuracy (for example, a billing application), you shouldn’t be using AI. We can do unit testing, integration testing, and acceptance testing—but we have to acknowledge that AI is not a world in which testing whether 2 == 1+1 counts for much.

Software Architecture 67

Software Architecture Monitoring Software Engineering Architecture 67

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Most of the CMS vendors dodge questions of evolution by talking about incremental innovation primarily focused on customer experience (CX) such as analytics and personalisation. There is hardly any innovation from traditional CMS vendors. Simply Static A static site generator (SSG) is nothing but a digital printing press.

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Systems Cache Website Network 63